Charite N. Ricker, MS, CGC

Assistant Professor Of Clinical Medicine

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Overview

Charité Ricker, MS is a genetic counselor with the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Clinical Instructor of Medicine in the USC Keck School of Medicine. She leads the genetic counseling team at Los Angeles General Medical Center for individuals and family at risk of having inherited cancer syndromes.

Ms. Ricker has extensive experience as a cancer genetic counselor and the majority of her clinical work has been in the underserved patient setting. Her particular research interest is focused on the provision of genetic services to ethnically diverse patient populations and its impact and the outcomes.

Research Funding

  • Increasing Access to Genetic Testing in Underserved Patients Using a Multilingual Conversational Agent
    NIH · R01CA263532 · Jun 1, 2022 – May 31, 2026 · Role: Principal Investigator

Publications

  • Beliefs and interest in cancer risk in an underserved Latino cohort. Prev Med. 2007 Mar; 44(3):241-5.. View in PubMed
  • Prevalence of BRCA mutations and founder effect in high-risk Hispanic families. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005 Jul; 14(7):1666-71.. View in PubMed
  • Outcomes from intensive training in genetic cancer risk counseling for clinicians. Genet Med. 2005 Jan; 7(1):40-7.. View in PubMed